Everyone has most likely heard the quote, "History is written by the victors." Although the quote is often attributed to Winston Churchill, it is not known who originally said it. However, the author does not matter, only the truth of the quote.
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers’ Edition Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong by James W. Loewen is part of his campaign to correct mistakes that have been taught in schools for years. His most famous work, Lies My Teacher Told Me, was originally published in 1995.
This history book is geared toward "young readers". I, as an adult, found the information interesting and some was outright surprising to me. However, I think young readers would find it wordy. This was not a book to sit and read cover to cover. I needed time to reflect, discuss, and to research sections for more information.
Adding it to an advanced or higher level history course to complement a traditional history textbook would be an asset to the student's education. Allowing both books to be read at the same time would probably help encourage the reader's curiosity to not just accept what the textbooks offers as history as fact.
Photography, History, Difference
Book
Over the past decade, historical studies of photography have embraced a variety of cultural and...
Porter, Steward, Citizen: An African American's Memoir of World War I
Book
In 1919, Royal Christian privately published a memoir based on his experiences in World War I....
The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas
Book
Anand Giridharadas's deeply moving new work of narrative non-fiction tells the story of Raisuddin...
Winchester Lever-Action Rifles
Martin Pegler, Mark Stacey and Alan Gilliland
Book
Winchester lever-action repeating rifles are an integral part of the folklore of the American West....
The First Family: Terror, Extortion and the Birth of the American Mafia
Book
Before Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, there was the one-fingered, cunning Giuseppe Morello and his...
The Rastafari Movement: A North American and Caribbean Perspective
Book
The Rastafari Movement: A North American and Caribbean Perspective provides a historical and...
Poitier Revisited: Reconsidering a Black Icon in the Obama Age
Ian Gregory Strachan and Mia Mask
Book
Sidney Poitier remains one of the most recognizable black men in the world. Widely celebrated but at...
American Libraries 1730-1950
Book
Although new technologies appear poised to alter it, the library remains a powerful site for...
On Company Time: American Modernism in the Big Magazines
Book
American novelists and poets who came of age in the early twentieth century were taught to avoid...
Erika (17789 KP) May 24, 2019